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Falsehood flies, and truth com...

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

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Ah, a German and a genius ! A ...

Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

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It often happens that, if a li...

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

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An atheist has got one point b...

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.

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The greatest Inventions were p...

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.

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The first springs of great eve...

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

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111 company is like a dog, who...

111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.

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Very few men, properly speakin...

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

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I forget whether advice be amo...

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

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Nature has left every man a ca...

Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

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Abstracts, abridgments, summar...

Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.

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Quotations are best brought in...

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

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Strange an astrologer should d...

Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.

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I never knew any man cured of ...

I never knew any man cured of inattention.

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Would a writer know how to beh...

Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.

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A poor spirit is poorer than a...

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

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The translators of the Bible w...

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

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The affectation of some late a...

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

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In all assemblies, though you ...

In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.

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There are but three ways for a...

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....